# He Forgot to Say Goodbye

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- Authors: [Benjamin Alire Saenz](https://www.bookquiver.com/benjamin-alire-saenz)
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
- ISBN: 978-14-1699-434-3
- Pages: 352
- Published: 2017-09-07
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A heartfelt novel from the award-winning author of Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe. On the surface, Ramiro Lopez and Jake Upthegrove couldn’t live more different lives. Ram is Mexican-American, lives in the poor section of town and is doing his best to keep his mother sane while his brother fights off a drug-induced coma. Jake is a WASP who drives a nice car, lives in a mansion and has a mother who drinks a bit too much and a step-father who cheats on her. But there is one point, one issue, where their lives are exactly the same; their fathers walked out on them when they were just young boys. And at this convergence, Ram and Jake see how everything in their lives is just a little bit similar, because they both blame everything that goes wrong on the one thing they actually have in common.